Spam Members Alert!

Izzy HaveMercy · 11 Sep 2006, 18:11

There seems to be a new user who looks rather suspicious, what with a name like review-slots-bonus-16288...

Kill'em!

(maybe we could make this one sticky so we can add all new ones we spot?)

IZ.

Big Si · 11 Sep 2006, 18:17

Aren't we supposed to post their email address several times?

Izzy HaveMercy · 11 Sep 2006, 18:27

Big Si wrote:Aren't we supposed to post their email address several times?

Nah, If all goes well, he will already be sucked into our little trap here...

IZ.

weebleswobble · 11 Sep 2006, 19:06

"Hey I was thinking of buying an EZ-238 anal intruder but hear that the 76-B Anultron is far superior. Can you advise?" etc etc etc

Dark · 11 Sep 2006, 19:19

Big Si wrote:Aren't we supposed to post their email address several times?

Perhaps.

And this new "2Grossman" is another spambot.

smiscandlon · 12 Sep 2006, 09:08

f-ckf0rsake?

Izzy HaveMercy · 13 Sep 2006, 20:41

"slots-bot-288" seems another one

IZ.

Dark · 15 Sep 2006, 22:28

JaneLoan_B
C_Robinson
David_Scott
slots-bot-29
abell
slots-bot-2886
Paul_White
slots-bot-288

All spammers, ready for the banlist.

MODS!

15 Sep 2006, 23:05

I had passed a note to higher powers to purge the ones listed above already. Whenever I log on, the first things which I do are check to see if anything in the weeding forum needs updating and see if any spammers have registered recently. The latter is taking more and more time lately.

Thanks for your vigilence.

Dark · 15 Sep 2006, 23:52

Wonderful.

And you can add the new Celebrex2007 to the list too

16 Sep 2006, 14:26

Dark wrote:Wonderful.

And you can add the new Celebrex2007 to the list too

Among others.

Izzy HaveMercy · 16 Sep 2006, 16:11

We'll play Spam Police from now on

We are many, we are legion!

IZ.

Izzy HaveMercy · 16 Sep 2006, 16:57

To help you people out, and because I absolutely HATE to see our beloved forum clogged with these assholes, I did some research in the Members database.

The criteria I used: a name with no posts and referring to a website with drugs, sex and other suspicious content I see as a spammer.

Also, someone caled 'dkjfgzibdn' and heading from the Cayman Islands, with no posts, seems highly suspicious in MY book.

I'll give you the list and I'll mention where their web address refer to...

You see what you do with it.

I did NOT include sites referring to stuff such as MySpace, they are too difficult to trace and might result in deleting genuine HL members...

Some of them were pointed out by Korin already.

And for the record, I went back as far as the beginning of 2006...

Here goes:

Janeloan_B -- sex site
slots-bot-29, slots-bot-2886, slots-bot-288 -- duh!
C_robinson -- medication
David-scott -- medication
Paul-white -- medication
zrtqks -- mp3-players
tykktykk -- gay porn
anjuta1973 -- medication
phone-cards -- ermmmm...
neckermann -- medication
wixntthe -- medication
JohnDoe1959 and JohnDoe1957 -- job search sites
Wfqsony -- multimedia
Hpvohc -- multimedia
Jdpbuln -- nonsense server, eventually leading to crashing your browser
CoolSavino -- banking
McNafferson -- medication
Fatloss -- medication
Jtfoe1974 -- nonsense server, crash etc...

Hope to have been of any help

IZ.

Big Si · 16 Sep 2006, 18:49

When you join a yahoogroup, for instance you get this message -

Word Verification

Enter the word as it is shown in the box below. This step helps Yahoo! prevent automated registrations.

Would adding this to the registration function help at all?

robertzombie · 16 Sep 2006, 19:12

Yeh I think that's a good idea

Izzy HaveMercy · 16 Sep 2006, 19:34

In the meantime, I did the rest of the memberslist as well, which was a lot easier

I found only two others in the period 2002-2005:

linethai -- bogus link in foreign lingo

Exael -- ringtones and wallpapers

...and this concludes my actions.

IZ.

Izzy HaveMercy · 16 Sep 2006, 19:46

Big Si wrote:When you join a yahoogroup, for instance you get this message -

Word Verification

Enter the word as it is shown in the box below. This step helps Yahoo! prevent automated registrations.

Would adding this to the registration function help at all?

From PhPbbHacks, I found THIS...

It seems to be what Simon said (:twisted:), especially made for PhP forums.

Maybe people who are more adept in the use of PhP can look at it, I ain't got a clue...

IZ.

Izzy HaveMercy · 17 Sep 2006, 13:00

New user P-Lewis is also a bot, selling meds

And BloLover errr.... loves to Blo...

IZ.

18 Sep 2006, 10:08

I believe that QB has already added the random-numbers-and-letters-in-a-gif thingy, but the bots are still managing to register.

One of the penalties of success it seems.

Big Si · 18 Sep 2006, 19:21

markfiend wrote:I believe that QB has already added the random-numbers-and-letters-in-a-gif thingy, but the bots are still managing to register.

One of the penalties of success it seems.

Some sites have to go through Moderator Evaluation before you can post this one for instance - http://www.nirvana2.com There must be some way of stopping them. I've stopped all the spammers getting on my yahoosites

vicus · 19 Sep 2006, 21:14

could someone please ban alenucfnedolores and delete that rubbish?

EvilBastard · 19 Sep 2006, 21:20

vicus wrote:could someone please ban alenucfnedolores and delete that rubbish?

But I *want* Gay Mens Slot Machine Combat Jeans Bondage Parts!!!

vicus · 19 Sep 2006, 21:22

EvilBastard wrote:
vicus wrote:could someone please ban alenucfnedolores and delete that rubbish?
But I *want* Gay Mens Slot Machine Combat Jeans Bondage Parts!!!

try this

Izzy HaveMercy · 19 Sep 2006, 21:24

vicus wrote:could someone please ban alenucfnedolores and delete that rubbish?

He posted everywhere, and even started a second topic minutes after the first one !

IZ.

Izzy HaveMercy · 19 Sep 2006, 21:24

Izzy HaveMercy wrote:
vicus wrote:could someone please ban alenucfnedolores and delete that rubbish?
He posted everywhere, and even started a second topic minutes after the first one !

IZ.

..not unlike Blast Towers, actually...

IZ.